Air Pollution

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This paper discusses the impact of air pollution on a person's health. The paper focuses primarily on the issue of respiratory ailments and heart disease in elderly patients. The paper also takes a look at indoor ventilation which can help in the prevention of such diseases.

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"The study found that current federal standards were not strict enough regarding air particles and grit in the environment. But what can elderly women, like the women do to improve their immediate health environment? Self-care is critical, even for the elderly, according to Orem's model of nursing which maintains: "a requirement for nursing exists when a person is unable to maintain for him/herself self-care action which is therapeutic in sustaining life and health," such as recovering from disease and injury or coping with the effects of an illness (Goodwin, 1990, citing Orem, 197 1: 1). In Orem's model, the nurse-patient relationship is unbalanced in the sense that the patient has a need for the nurse and the nurse must step in with her ability and meet that need but the relationship between nurse and patient is always complimentary. The nurse must act to help the patient assume responsibility for health-related self-care to the maximum degree possible (Goodwin, 1990)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Goodwin, Marianne. (1990). "Is it feasible for the nursing division at St. Vincent'sHospital to adopt Dorothea Orem's model of nursing?" Health News. Retrieved 4 Feb 2007 at http://www.ciap.health.nsw.gov.au/hospolic/stvincents/1990/a06.html#3
• "An Introduction to Indoor Air Quality." (2006). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Retrieved 4 Feb 2007 at http://www.epa.gov/iaq/is-imprv.html
• "Study Finds Gritty Air Raises Heart Disease Risk in Older Women." (31 Jan 2006) The Associated Press. Retrieved 4 Feb 2007 a from The New York Times website at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/health/01heart.html?_r=1&ref=health&oref=slogin

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